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I went to Karaka for the first time in 2017 and my pick of the sale of the horses I saw was Avantage. I went again in 2019 and my pick of the sale was Just Ben. It seems I have an eye for a good horse, but also an eye for a not-so-good horse. Unfortunately I don't know which eye is which.

Don't agree Insider. They need to follow through with renaming Government and other agencies in the normal language for most New Zealanders, ditch thousands of public service bludgers who were cynically positioned in "work" by the Ardern/Hipkins cabal late last year and marginalise Swarbrick and her coterie of queers.
I'm picking most thinking NZers are delighted that the evil bitch Adern is gone and are even applauding the wonderfully lucid  Shane Jones as he lines up the parasitic Waitangi Tribunal.
It's tough to produce financial largesse for everybody when the incompetent previous lot have emptied the pot with their Marxist behaviour.

We always seem to get the leftovers from Oz...so what's new.

I guess time will tell, certainly not giving handing out the cash left right and centre like the previous government,  but the people will decide in the long run.

Racing certainly has been at saturation point for many years now, trying to stretch the punting dollar further, but many of us have a limit, mainly local product, for me, occasionally a bet on  big meets in Australia, hard enough keeping up with the local form, let alone bothering with a bet in timbuktu or there other, so it's a no from me John, those meetings a dead loss in my opinion. 

Quite the valedictory from Ellis and Te Akau---interestingly not a mention of the trainer who looked after her so well and produced terrific winning results in the mare's formative racing years. That would be Jamie Richards if anybody else has the same TA amnesia.

Luck a major player in most cases I reckon.

Well bred and no reason why one shouldn't consider mating a mare to him, certainly has the credentials and a very very modest fee, how could you go wrong.

HI there, I just want to follow up on this thread. Gorky Park has now moved to the Manawatu, to reside at Dalacine Farm permanently. I am in retirement and wish to bred him to my small team of mares for his 21 Birthday. The aim is to race the resultant progeny with the hope of emulating another Gorbachev in adding to his stakes winning total.
I feel he is a much-underrated stallion with a great pedigree and proven breeding and racing results. Yes he missed the commercial pathway as many other stallions have done.
It's a fraught game and only very few reach the pinnacle of success. But under current new NZ racing, the little boys have another chance of worthwhile success and play at a level they can support.
Gorky Park looks great, not an old horse at all, He's has shown he's still very keen to meet the girls, something he hasn't done since 2018. He will be seeing mares from Zabeel Stravinsky Rip van Winkle and High Chaparral
I have put a token $1k service fee on him. No live foal guarantee, just a free return mating due to his age and unknown fertility status

From Vicky Harris. · Some very good questions posed by the head of the World Council for Health raised at the Geneva conference. "Geneva press conference on Human Rights and COVID-19: 1- Why were we not told that the Covid 19 virus was patented by Moderna in 2018? 2- Why did Moderna produce 100,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses in 2019 before the pandemic started? 3- Why, against all scientific evidence, were lockdowns and masks used? 4- Why were we not told that the ‘vaccine’ does not remain in the arm, but accumulates all over the body? 5- Why was PCR testing recommended when it is not designed for diagnostic purposes? 6- Why were the definitions of ‘vaccine’, and ‘herd immunity’ changed prior to the Covid-19 outbreak? 7- Why was a pandemic declared when the case fatality rate was akin to ’flu? 8- Why were tests on genotoxicity, teratogenicity, and carcinogenicity not carried out, and yet we were told the ‘vaccine’ was safe? 9- Why was there no proper follow-up of all people injected when using a new gene therapy product? 10- Why were doctors and the public not reminded regularly about the need to report adverse reactions to these new and experimental genetic ‘vaccines’? 11- Why was a ‘vaccine’ recommended during an ongoing pandemic, which is contraindicated in vaccinology? 12- Why was a ‘vaccine’ recommended for those who had superior natural immunity? 13- Why was a novel gene therapy launched after three months, instead of the required ten years? 14- Why were we not told that, in the Pfizer trial, more people died in the vaccinated group than in the control group? 15- Why were we told that Covid injections were ‘safe and effective’ when the evidence did not substantiate this? 16- Why were – and are – opposing voices from science and practicing medicine discredited, punished, and jailed? 17- Why were doctors, for the first time in history, discouraged from treating a disease, and told to wait for a vaccine? 18- Why was early treatment discouraged, whilst we know it is the most important tool to address any infectious disease? 19- Why were effective and very safe medicines like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin discredited and even prohibited? 20- Why did the producers of the novel gene therapies not want their data to be published for 75 years? 21- Why were Covid injections, masks and lockdowns recommended for children when it was known that they were not severely affected and did not spread Covid? 22- Why were the Covid injections recommended in pregnancy, when over 80% of babies were lost in trials when women were vaccinated in the first trimester? 23- Why was emergency approval guaranteed when over 2,000 people died within the first three months after vaccination roll-out? 24- Why is there no scientific outcry after over 3,500 papers have been published demonstrating side effects of the Covid-19 injections? 25- Why are conflicts of interest tolerated among medical authorities, with the FDA, EMA, and WHO being 80-90% funded by industry? 26- Why was there no adequate education of doctors, patients, and the public, and thus no possibility of informed consent? 27- Why and how were the media captured so that they pushed only one agenda worldwide? 28- Why were and are effective treatment protocols, which have existed since 2020, banned and declared illegal? 29- Why are we not told about the unnecessary deaths that were attributed to Covid but actually caused by iatrogenic measures (e.g. Midazolam, ventilation) carried out in early 2020? 30- Why was the fundamental role of Vitamin D status, diet, and the microbiome not communicated, when these measures could have prevented almost 100% of Covid deaths? 31- Why was and is a certain medical procedure forced upon people against their will, whilst the Nuremberg Declaration clearly opposes this? 32- Why is gain of function research, like that relating to Covid-19, not banned worldwide? 33- Why is an mRNA product still being used, when we know that mRNA is being incorporated into the human genome, and resulting in the production of other, unknown, proteins? 34- Why has the failed mRNA concept not been stopped, when we know it increases the likelihood of the recipient getting Covid-19, thus demonstrating negative efficacy? 35-Why do these products continue to be recommended, when at least 17 million people are believed to have died due to the injections? 36-Why is there no investigation into excess deaths, and increases in rates of cancer and heart problems, etc., which started in 2021, not in 2020?"

For gods Sake, horses break down on any track Scooby, you know that.
Super Sid has gone around a few times, Pearl of Alsace might have felt the firm track, some do some don’t.
Injuries  happen, it’s called an attrition rate, if you read all stripes reports from all tracks things will be pretty similar.
Give Ellerslie some time, I for one, along with a lot of others will race there when it is in use….
It’s Headquarters, and not the other Famous landmark at the Viaduct!
 

On a quiet Sunday racing and betting at Addington do we really need a choice of 45 meetings ? (including Korea/Japan?/usa?/every Aus state.) just asking .... am only right bout 50%of time😂

Opposition just to classy again, I think our lot are abit over rated,

Opposition just to classy again, I think our lot are abit over rated,

I do not think you could call a race the powder 'puff' derby these days 😊

Wonder if his name is Sandy Cocks.

Would be great to see, obviously very patient owners and want to play the Long. game so to speak, a lot of water under the bridge before the cup, hopefully he stays sound in mean time, but imagine that if he was to win, bred owned and trained in nz, been along time between drinks.

Impressive effort, obviously trained like to be a stayer, and ridden like one, a dying art it seems these days, just pop overseas, and buy a ready made one, seems to be the normal now, just need deep pockets, very deep.

I read where its returning to freeview, great news

I read where its returning to freeview, great news

Impressive effort, obviously trained like to be a stayer, and ridden like one, a dying art it seems these days, just pop overseas, and buy a ready made one, seems to be the normal now, just need deep pockets, very deep.

Would be great to see, obviously very patient owners and want to play the Long. game so to speak, a lot of water under the bridge before the cup, hopefully he stays sound in mean time, but imagine that if he was to win, bred owned and trained in nz, been along time between drinks.

Would be great to see, obviously very patient owners and want to play the Long. game so to speak, a lot of water under the bridge before the cup, hopefully he stays sound in mean time, but imagine that if he was to win, bred owned and trained in nz, been along time between drinks.

Yes how very true, many high rollers been clipping the ticket for sometime, I see consultants also mentioned, they cost councils a fortune, sad to see people lose jobs, but money been handed out like lollies for two long.